Tuesday, April 17, 2007

airport

Cool! There's a command-line way (in OS X 10.4) to look at what's going on with your Airport connection: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/Resources/airport. The useful flags are -h for help, -s or --scan for a scan, and -I or --getinfo for current status.

We've had some cases at work where I would really like to have a graph of signal strength (so I can prove that the latest LWAPP firmware upgrade was disastrous for Mac users), so a list of numbers to chart would be ideal. There are some nice graphical tools out there, but the charts aren't persistent, so my documentation is ephemeral. I could easily write a script with airport for my list of numbers to chart, though!

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